Has anyone else entertained the possibility that they are pretty sure it will hit on the 18th, and issued the press release saying it would be visible with binoc's so that the amateur astronomers who think it's on a collision course won't get any press, so as to prevent public panic? Didn't think so.
This is not really that scary; the guy apparently expected a little common
sense, and that's usually a mistake in dealing with the government
What's scary is the recent corporate
crime bill recently passed by the house of representatives, which would make
it illegal to attempt a federal crime, not just to commit it.
As attempt is obviously pretty subjective, this is awful scary.
War Driving would be illegal. As someone else pointed out, just running a
auto-discovery tool would be illegal, or could be made to appear as illegal.
I was looking for a quote from Orwell on the subject, something on the lines
of make everyone a criminal, if you want control, but I'm sick of
the whole subject.
just thought someone should....so few actually understand video.
Indeo Is also pretty good, if you use the 5.11 codec. I do all my BIG projects in it, virtually lossless.
....Which is why I always put my stuff up in at least 3 different formats,.mov,.mpg &.asf
Everyone Is almost certain to have a codec for one of them.
It's easy, it's free, and it's just plain sense.
(yes, I will start using OGG video when I can figure it out.)
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"quicktime is missing software needed to perform this operation. Unfortunately, it is not available on our server"
I have to admit that is one HELL of a error message.
I think this is a silver lining at least. Worldcom owns UUnet; UUnet provides (i'm fairly certain) the majority of the modem pools used by AOL; If UUnet suffers a "disruption of service", then AOL DIES!.
Unfortunately, they also own the remnants of the old Compuserve business network, which is the backbone for UPS and Visa.... Which also means that portion, at least, will most likely be federally protected. Which is a good thing. I've seen several people post that they have backup circuits; I wonder how many of those backup circuits are just Worldcom by another name?
Don't forget Matrix
Games; they have taken several of the best strategy games of history and
rewrote them to be playable on win32 platforms, with probably the best work done
on Steel Panthers: World at War (SPWAW).
They took SSI's old code for Steel Panthers 3, and rewrote the game so it
would run on win32, instead of just DOS. and then, they made it free (as in
beer).
While not quite as much fun to me as the original (the re-write only does
warfare circa 1938-1946), this has got to be one of the most re-playable games
out there.
I've been thinking about this topic for quite a while now; there really should be some way to take all those wal-mart USB Telescopes and do something meaningful with them. However, since I refuse to waste space on a NYT cookie, all I can say which is meaningful at all is: "Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of those!" Sigh.
Wrong. I use windows because thats what the applications are written for. If I could play Morrowind, GTA3, Civ3, run Bryce, 3Dstudio, etc. on Linux, Without having to re-write half the code myself, I would run Linux. IT REALLY IS THAT SIMPLE. I'm really hoping I will be able to do all these things on Linux soon, because even though I'm an MCSE, I've had quite enough of MacroHard; the recent announcement that they will be expiring Win2k put the nail in the coffin as far as I'm concerned. They FINALLY came up with a couple of decent platforms (Win2k for work, Win98SE for games) and they are doing all they can to keep anyone from using them. WinXP is pure, unadulterated Crap. I'd rather have a Mac.
Is Civil Disobedience permitted in the UK? Find the Cameras. Put some electrical tape on the lens. Repeat as neccesary.
As long as you don't do actual damage to the camera, and it's a simple matter to fix, they can't really charge you with destroying it, right? And if they have to send a person out to remove the tape every day from 90% of the camera setups....
I could have SWORN that this had already been done right; I remember reading about a big fish tank-ish structure, filled with liquid in which phosphorescent particles were suspended, and multiple red, green and blue lasers above and below the tank, intersect 2 lasers at a certain point and that point glows red, green, blue, whatever, the particles glowed for a few milliseconds, long enough so that when the proper 3d shape was traced, it generated a 3d image. I recall the frame rate sucked, something like 1 per 2 seconds. Anyone else recall this? it was maybe 4 years ago, had something to do with a japanese car company, I think... I've done a relatively complete search, came up with nothing. If I just dreamed it, consider this trademarked prior art.
Couldn't agree more.
The focus, contrary to what many seem to think, is NOT "News for Anal retentive nerds who only think that what they are interested in matters".
I watch the Buffy shows. It's the only thing I watch, besides the weather channel.
Interesting concepts, Hot Babes, Well developed mythos, Hot Babes, probably the best (not saying much) treatment of Magik on TV, Hot Babes, etc.
P.S. Did I mention the Hot Babes?
I know absolutely nothing about this subject, and have no comments aside from "first", which I hate to read when other people do it, but god, when you see that no one else has posted....
uhhh.
Yeah.
A rocket carries it's own fuel and oxygen supply.
A jet, even one without moving parts, just supplies one of the components.
That's why things like the bussard ramjet, even though they only operate in space, are called jets; they gather the fuel from interstellar space.
I would like to point out a couple of things.
There are people expressing opinions in this thread that could be considered critical of the U.S. government or it's leadership.
If those people are active or reserve members of the U.S. Military, this could be considered a violation of the UCMJ (uniform code of military justice).
With the current state of the nation, this could be considered as sufficient reason to subpeona the logs for/. not that an actual reason is neccesary these days.
On another aspect, the people being held without trial are "connected" or "related" to known terrorist / extremist groups. thats all thats required, being connected in some way or related. Not neccesarily now, anytime in the past works also.
So.....
ever donated to greenpeace? Earth liberation front? Jewish Defense League? IRA? Black Panthers? Coalition for Life? Aryan nation? Christian identity movement? Militia's? KKK? Constitutionalist society? John Birch?
No? how about a family member then? or your Boss?
any of these things, and more, i'm sure, can draw scrutiny. and, guess what? if you look hard enough, anywhere, you'll find something.
I did. Lived there for 4 years, couldn't stomach it anymore. I've turned down really well paying jobs in CA (and I'm unemployed) because I couldn't stand the thought of my kids growing up around people who think the state is supposed to take care of you, that self-defense is evil, etc.
However, good post. Well written, concise, to the point. Are you sure you are a californian?
I don't want to get too in-depth, but my best friend growing up burned to death because he was wearing a seat belt.
My general rule: If i'm where i'll get popped for not wearing one, and it's a under 40mph zone, i drape it over my shoulder as loosely as possible.
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My Brother, who is an Insane Genius©, Has been using Atari systems, mainly the 800's and the Mega ST, since around '87 I think; He's got them hacked all to hell, built a scanner head into a printer, Parallel processing with random mutated code, good stuff like that.
These machines are incredible for their era, which is not surprising considering they pretty much lost all the best talent in the company to Amiga.
Enjoy Freenet & Frost while you can.
Has anyone else entertained the possibility that they are pretty sure it will hit on the 18th, and issued the press release saying it would be visible with binoc's so that the amateur astronomers who think it's on a collision course won't get any press, so as to prevent public panic?
Didn't think so.
This is not really that scary; the guy apparently expected a little common sense, and that's usually a mistake in dealing with the government
What's scary is the recent corporate crime bill recently passed by the house of representatives, which would make it illegal to attempt a federal crime, not just to commit it.
As attempt is obviously pretty subjective, this is awful scary. War Driving would be illegal. As someone else pointed out, just running a auto-discovery tool would be illegal, or could be made to appear as illegal.
I was looking for a quote from Orwell on the subject, something on the lines of make everyone a criminal, if you want control, but I'm sick of the whole subject.
Enjoy Freenet & Frost while you can.
just thought someone should....so few actually understand video. Indeo Is also pretty good, if you use the 5.11 codec. I do all my BIG projects in it, virtually lossless.
....Which is why I always put my stuff up in at least 3 different formats, .mov, .mpg & .asf
Everyone Is almost certain to have a codec for one of them.
It's easy, it's free, and it's just plain sense.
(yes, I will start using OGG video when I can figure it out.)
"quicktime is missing software needed to perform this operation. Unfortunately, it is not available on our server" I have to admit that is one HELL of a error message.
...but he didn't let it stop him or ruin his day.
This is one I used to whip out after the AD&D games broke up......It's actually realllllly good.
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can tuna
toast.
make the soup.
dump in the tuna
make the toast
pour the tuna/mushroom stuff over the toast.
It's bizarre, but good.
Of course there is always Ramen with Bac-o's
I think this is a silver lining at least. Worldcom owns UUnet; UUnet provides (i'm fairly certain) the majority of the modem pools used by AOL; If UUnet suffers a "disruption of service", then AOL DIES! .
Unfortunately, they also own the remnants of the old Compuserve business network, which is the backbone for UPS and Visa....
Which also means that portion, at least, will most likely be federally protected.
Which is a good thing. I've seen several people post that they have backup circuits; I wonder how many of those backup circuits are just Worldcom by another name?
Don't forget Matrix Games; they have taken several of the best strategy games of history and rewrote them to be playable on win32 platforms, with probably the best work done on Steel Panthers: World at War (SPWAW).
They took SSI's old code for Steel Panthers 3, and rewrote the game so it would run on win32, instead of just DOS. and then, they made it free (as in beer).
While not quite as much fun to me as the original (the re-write only does warfare circa 1938-1946), this has got to be one of the most re-playable games out there.
I've been thinking about this topic for quite a while now; there really should be some way to take all those wal-mart USB Telescopes and do something meaningful with them.
However, since I refuse to waste space on a NYT cookie, all I can say which is meaningful at all is:
"Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of those!"
Sigh.
LOL
I'm really betting that no one will get the meaning of this post.
Wrong. I use windows because thats what the applications are written for.
If I could play Morrowind, GTA3, Civ3, run Bryce, 3Dstudio, etc. on Linux, Without having to re-write half the code myself, I would run Linux.
IT REALLY IS THAT SIMPLE.
I'm really hoping I will be able to do all these things on Linux soon, because even though I'm an MCSE, I've had quite enough of MacroHard; the recent announcement that they will be expiring Win2k put the nail in the coffin as far as I'm concerned. They FINALLY came up with a couple of decent platforms (Win2k for work, Win98SE for games) and they are doing all they can to keep anyone from using them.
WinXP is pure, unadulterated Crap. I'd rather have a Mac.
Is Civil Disobedience permitted in the UK?
Find the Cameras.
Put some electrical tape on the lens.
Repeat as neccesary.
As long as you don't do actual damage to the camera, and it's a simple matter to fix, they can't really charge you with destroying it, right?
And if they have to send a person out to remove the tape every day from 90% of the camera setups....
Seems pretty basic, to me.
Just FYI, Freenet has gotten REALLY stable & quick lately. really. I'm not kidding.
I could have SWORN that this had already been done right; I remember reading about a big fish tank-ish structure, filled with liquid in which phosphorescent particles were suspended, and multiple red, green and blue lasers above and below the tank, intersect 2 lasers at a certain point and that point glows red, green, blue, whatever, the particles glowed for a few milliseconds, long enough so that when the proper 3d shape was traced, it generated a 3d image.
I recall the frame rate sucked, something like 1 per 2 seconds.
Anyone else recall this? it was maybe 4 years ago, had something to do with a japanese car company, I think... I've done a relatively complete search, came up with nothing.
If I just dreamed it, consider this trademarked prior art.
Couldn't agree more. The focus, contrary to what many seem to think, is NOT "News for Anal retentive nerds who only think that what they are interested in matters". I watch the Buffy shows. It's the only thing I watch, besides the weather channel. Interesting concepts, Hot Babes, Well developed mythos, Hot Babes, probably the best (not saying much) treatment of Magik on TV, Hot Babes, etc. P.S. Did I mention the Hot Babes?
I know absolutely nothing about this subject, and have no comments aside from "first", which I hate to read when other people do it, but god, when you see that no one else has posted....
uhhh. Yeah. A rocket carries it's own fuel and oxygen supply. A jet, even one without moving parts, just supplies one of the components. That's why things like the bussard ramjet, even though they only operate in space, are called jets; they gather the fuel from interstellar space.
I would like to point out a couple of things. There are people expressing opinions in this thread that could be considered critical of the U.S. government or it's leadership. If those people are active or reserve members of the U.S. Military, this could be considered a violation of the UCMJ (uniform code of military justice). With the current state of the nation, this could be considered as sufficient reason to subpeona the logs for /. not that an actual reason is neccesary these days.
On another aspect, the people being held without trial are "connected" or "related" to known terrorist / extremist groups. thats all thats required, being connected in some way or related. Not neccesarily now, anytime in the past works also.
So.....
ever donated to greenpeace? Earth liberation front? Jewish Defense League? IRA? Black Panthers? Coalition for Life? Aryan nation? Christian identity movement? Militia's? KKK? Constitutionalist society? John Birch?
No? how about a family member then? or your Boss?
any of these things, and more, i'm sure, can draw scrutiny. and, guess what? if you look hard enough, anywhere, you'll find something.
Wow. If only I could live in the same world you do.
Damn. I meant This
amazing that http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_2 062000/2062429.stm was not covered by a single US news outlet...
I did. Lived there for 4 years, couldn't stomach it anymore. I've turned down really well paying jobs in CA (and I'm unemployed) because I couldn't stand the thought of my kids growing up around people who think the state is supposed to take care of you, that self-defense is evil, etc. However, good post. Well written, concise, to the point. Are you sure you are a californian?
I don't want to get too in-depth, but my best friend growing up burned to death because he was wearing a seat belt. My general rule: If i'm where i'll get popped for not wearing one, and it's a under 40mph zone, i drape it over my shoulder as loosely as possible.